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Herman2024
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Jan 10, 2025

should set hostname first on new F5 appliance before running setup utility?

hi , we are going to setup a new F5 appliance. I have one question regarding device certificate, should we set hostname first on new F5 appliance before running setup utility because the host name wi...
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Jan 10, 2025

Herman2024 I believe this guide can still be followed for the most part and it does recommend that you configure the hostname of the device activating and licensing the device.

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-system-initial-configuration-11-6-0/1.html

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    Herman2024
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    Jan 15, 2025

    hi Paulius , thanks for your advice. In order to make the device certificate is more readable , better to have the hostname configured first then generate the local device. So the setup utiliy seems not very good because generating device certificate first , then can configure the hostname under Tab "Platform". Now I need to renew the device certificate after set the hostname.